Creative Community Bulletin 8 January 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • 10 Paradoxical Traits Of Creative People
    “CREATIVE PEOPLE ARE HUMBLE AND PROUD. CREATIVE PEOPLE TEND TO BE BOTH EXTROVERTED AND INTROVERTED. CREATIVE PEOPLE ARE REBELLIOUS AND CONSERVATIVE. HOW CREATIVE ARE YOU?”
  • New Startup Turns iPad Digital Magazine Into Interior Design Tool
    “Now, entre­pre­neur Marc Lebovitz is expand­ing on that same idea with his new start­up, Adornably, a com­pa­ny cen­tered around a new iPad app. After down­load­ing Adornably and cre­at­ing a free account, you can lay any mag­a­zine on the floor of a room …
  • New Startup Turns iPad Digital Magazine Into Interior Design Tool
    “Now, entre­pre­neur Marc Lebovitz is expand­ing on that same idea with his new start­up, Adornably, a com­pa­ny cen­tered around a new iPad app. After down­load­ing Adornably and cre­at­ing a free account, you can lay any mag­a­zine on the floor of a room …
  • Unless Designers Intercede, Augmented Reality Could Become the Super Creepy Dating Tool of Tomorrow

    How could design­ers inter­vene, help­ing us meet, greet, and poten­tial­ly fall in love with a lit­tle bit less of a 10 out of 10 preda­to­ry vibe? Let’s con­sid­er some pos­si­bil­i­ties around that moment in the video where the two future lovers meet:”

  • Interactive Water Light Graffiti Wall Installation
    “con­ceived by french dig­i­ta­lar­ti art­lab res­i­dence design­er antonin fourneau, ‘water light graf­fi­ti’ is a wall com­prised of thousands
    of LED lights that become illu­mi­nat­ed through con­tact with water or mois­ture. locat­ed in poitiers, france, the…
  • 50 Inspirational Branding & Identity Design Projects

    Print is def­i­nite­ly not dead! No mat­ter how big the web becomes the tac­tile nature of print­ed mate­r­i­al will always form a cru­cial part of a brand’s over­all iden­ti­ty. This post show­cas­es a huge col­lec­tion of inspi­ra­tional brand­ing and iden­ti­ty projects with each exam­ple pre­sent­ed in a neat lay­out, often with clever com­ple­men­tary objects that rein­force the theme or style of the design work.”

  • A Business Model With No Goals — Instead of Planning How to Work, Just Work

    Goals are good, right? They can help you increase your sales, or shave a minute off your mile. We wouldn’t have world-class ath­letes or American Idol cham­pi­ons with­out goals. Yet I can’t seem to buy the hype.

    Particularly in busi­ness, I don’t believe goals are uni­ver­sal­ly help­ful. “No goals” does not equate to “no suc­cess.” Quite the con­trary, it means you’re not lim­it­ed by goals.”

  • 10 Psychological States You’ve Never Heard Of… and When You Experienced Them
    “Everybody knows what you mean when you say you’re hap­py or sad. But what about all those emo­tion­al states you don’t have words for? Here are ten feel­ings you may have had, but nev­er knew how to explain.”
  • 21 Suggestions for a Successful Design Career
    “1. Find the right place to gain as much expe­ri­ence as pos­si­ble in the short­est amount of time. This may mean a small inde­pen­dent design stu­dio, a large multi­na­tion­al or hop­ping jobs every 2 years depend­ing on the avail­able options you may have…